May 2012
You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...
– Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their...
April 2012
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& then my heart creyz
Alec Baldwin sneaking Tina a kiss on the cheek while the credits are rolling
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I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can’t cross a...
– Robert Lowell, in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop about proposing marriage, dated August 15, 1957
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For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via lov3good)
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press release, to: all uncg administrators, grad...
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Do you ever feel like you’ve become the worst version of your self?
– Tom Hanks, in You’ve Got Mail